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3 days ago · Olaf II Haraldsson also is known as St. Olaf was king of Norway reigning from 1015 to 1028. He achieved a 12-year respite from Danish domination and extensively increased the acceptance of Christianity. His religious code of 1024 is considered to represent Norway’s first national legislation.
5 days ago · Peter Webber, who helmed the Oscar-nominated “Girl With the Pearl Earring,” is to direct a film about the family behind the Leica camera brand, who helped many Jewish people escape Germany...
5 days ago · Ynglinga saga, Hervarar saga, Ásmundar saga kappabana, Orvar-Odd's saga and in the Saga of Olaf Haraldsson . Álfheimr (region) Old Norse: Álfheimr. In the Norse legendary sagas, the name of an area corresponding to Bohuslän, in Sweden. [9] Andvari Falls, Waterfall of Andvari. Old Norse: Andvarafors.
3 days ago · The quarrels between Olaf II and his brother, king Reginald, no doubt produced this discord; the bishopric was a pawn in the game played between the two, a game in which the forces of north and south, of popes and kings, were called into play.
4 days ago · Although his figure is relatively unknown today, his name recently recovered a place of honor in the book Histoires extraordinaires des Justes: Portraits de 30 héros parmi les nations (“Extraordinary Stories of the Righteous: Portraits of 30 Heroes Among the Nations”) by historian Dominique Lormier.
4 days ago · Olaf Scholz, German politician who became chancellor of Germany in 2021. A longtime member of Germany’s centre-left Social Democratic Party (SPD), Scholz served as finance minister and vice chancellor (2018–21) in the ‘grand coalition’ government of Angela Merkel before succeeding her as chancellor.
2 days ago · World War II, conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during the years 1939–45. The principal belligerents were the Axis powers — Germany, Italy, and Japan —and the Allies— France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and, to a lesser extent, China.
